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An active region that had just rotated into view blasted out a coronal mass ejection, which was immediately followed...
Magnetic Dance: Solar material traces out giant magnetic fields soaring through the sun to create what's called...
Giant, bright coronal loops trace out the magnetic field lines above an active region from June 4-6, 2018. The...
These banana-shaped loops are part of a computer-generated snapshot of our sun's magnetic field. The solar...
Breaking the grip of the closed magnetic loops that constrain other gases around it, a spray of chromospheric...
jsc2024e061945 (1/5/2024) --- The COronal Diagnostic EXperiment (CODEX) instrument prepares for the...
Watching a particularly beautiful movie of the sun helps show how the lines between science and art can sometimes...
In this video NASA solar physicist Holly Gilbert narrates a visualization of the slow changes in the sun's magnetic...
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, captured this solar image on March 16, 2015, which clearly shows two dark...
The sun shot out a small coronal mass ejection that was also associated with a small flare (Jan. 22, 2018). The...
Caption: This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It has...
Caption: This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It has...
To view a video of the Gradient Sun go to: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/8103212817 Looking at a particularly beautiful...
Explanation: In this picture, the Sun's surface is quite dark. A frame from a movie recorded on November 9th by the...
Telescopes help distant objects appear bigger, but this is only one of their advantages. Telescopes can also collect...
The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO...
Caption: This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on July 18,...
On July 24, 2016, NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, captured a mid-level solar flare: a sudden...
Caption: This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It has...
This CME image from Oct. 7, 2012, captured by two instruments on STEREO, shows the eruption from its base out into...
Two NASA spacecraft have provided the most comprehensive movie ever of a mysterious process at the heart of all...
April 21, 2011 marks the one-year anniversary of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) First Light press conference,...
An active region just about squarely facing Earth erupted with an X 1.6 flare (largest class) as well as a coronal...
February 11, 2015 marks five years in space for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which provides incredibly...